Steve Bone

Whether Shaughnessy is not quite 100% yet, he was certainly found wanting for one of the goals, wasn't he, in the second half?

but that that is yeah it's quite embarrassing to be on the end or the wrong end of a stat like that uh yeah yeah it just makes you wonder how it's how it can happen but it has three one is bad enough four one is pretty painful five and by the time you get to six

it's um it's it's genuinely embarrassing isn't it it's genuinely embarrassing yeah yeah i always think five seems five i always think if you let in five seems a lot worse than four somehow doesn't it i don't know i don't know why maybe it's because it's sort of halfway to ten but yeah five and six you don't want to be it's just it becomes a score that stands out in the day's scores doesn't it you know you can have a quick scan down you see who scored five or who's in five

and if it's six it's even worse it happened you know it happened at Stoke last year and actually we came back quite bounced back quite well from it when it happened at Stoke last year Will Norris didn't because he was I don't think he was ever seen again after that was he in the team no but we drew our next game after that and then er

won our next away game after that ironically at QPR last season so perhaps that means we'll bounce back from this and go and win at Stoke where we've still got to go this season if you want to be optimistic about it but yeah it's

it's it's embarrassing i mean that you know the manager and marlon pack didn't pull any punches afterwards did they they were they gave various very sort of honest interviews about how it just wasn't good enough no excuses uh they know they need to do better and you just hope that by the time the next game comes around it will still be in a way you want it to be fresh in those players minds because you want them to remember that they've got a sort of debt to pay the fans

fans want to see a big reaction to that but yes embarrassing and awful and everything else it's happened before we've had worse defeats we've lost by six at smaller grounds than that before it happens but you don't want it to happen to you and you don't want it to happen at a point in the season where you really need some wins to get over the line

Well, it probably has for this one.

I can see what the manager means because I think sometimes when you've lost a game, it doesn't matter if it's 6-1 or 1-0, I think when you've lost you do want to get on with the next one.

You don't want to dwell on it for too long and you do want to get on and try to win the next one and show that it was a blip or a one-off or whatever.

But I think, not just because this game, but I think because of the run we've had over the past few weeks, and I think if you go back to the start of February, we've won two out of ten games, I think it is in that time, it might even be two out of eleven.

It's not a very good statistic anyway.

I just think maybe he's right when he says we just need to package those couple of months up as a little section of the season

where we've had a couple of bright moments at Charlton and Millwall but generally have not done very well and not got enough points put that away put that in a box have 13 days between games get a few people a bit fitter than they were before the break and then treat the last slab of games as a sort of mini season where we need to be on it and at it

so I can see where he's coming yeah normally I would say if you've won before an international break it's great because you can you know you can light a cigar put your feet up for a few days and then you can think about continuing your winning run yeah but I do yeah normally you don't want to defeat before two weeks off but I think in this case I agree with him and it's maybe not a bad thing

I had exactly the same thought.

It might be that I saw the same thing on social media as you.

I do think there are things about being in League One that are better than being in the Championship.

From the point of view of the quality of football you're watching and the sort of place that your team has in the general football hierarchy, you don't want to be going down from the Championship to League One, generally speaking, do you?

But yes, we would certainly have more Saturday three o'clock kickoffs.